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Re: Moving from textmode to binmode: mount: resource busy
- To: dkarr at tcsi dot com (David M. Karr),cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Moving from textmode to binmode: mount: resource busy
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:16:36 -0500
At 01:50 PM 1/12/2001, David M. Karr wrote:
>I want to explore the possibility of using binmode instead of
>textmode. I successfully changed the default to binmode. When I
>tried changing the mode on "/usr/bin", in an MSDOS shell with:
>
> mount -b -s d:\cygwin\bin /usr/bin
>
>It said:
>
> mount: /usr/bin: Device or resource busy
>
>I'm doing this from the root directory of a different drive, and I've
>killed every process that could possibly (AFAIK) have this open.
>
>I'd appreciate some information about this.
umount /usr/bin first.
>When I get past this, what other issues should I expect, and can I
>deal with them?
Good question. There have traditionally been problems with script and
makefiles since these contain \r\n and shells and make would trip over
these. This shouldn't be a problem for bash/ash/sh and make anymore
though. It may still be a problem for other shells. Remove the \r from
these files and you'll be fine or fix the offending utility by making it
read text too.
>For instance, what do I have to do with "pdksh" and
>NTEmacs to work with this?
Dunno.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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